The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

CARDINAL GIBBONS has sent from Rome a val
liable cameo ring his contribution to church
fair soon to be held IN Baltimore.
MISS ETHEL DICKENS, granddaughter of
Charles Dickens has started type-writing Of
fee for the copying of parts and prompt books.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is said to be very partial
to a particularly fine brand of old rye, aud sell
dom drinks wine wher there is any toddy around.
He also smokes and chews.
Mrs. DINAH UNLOCK CRAIK thinks that wom-
en- united to bad husbands ought for their chill
dren's sake to leave them not by divorce. which
only enables the bad men to make other women
unhappy, but by judicial separation.
M. LECoNTE DE L'IsLE, who has been installed
in Victor Hugo's chair in the French Academy.
looks like old Puritan minister, with his
smooth, passionless face cold gray eyes, thin
lips and long white hair brushed smoothly back.
In the Office of great magazine: Editor of
humorous department Ito editor-in-c chief
Here is joke dated 1909. Shall put it in our
next number?' Editor-in-chief-.'No it is not
advisable to spring thing too suddenly. Better
hold it while"
A PEASANT in the Gironde. France, not long
ago sent to the Lord Mayor of London consid-
cradle consignment of poultry. asking him to
sell the fowls for him, and Sir Reginald Hanson
actually executed the commission on terms most
advantageous to the Frenchman.
Dr.. w. SEWARD WEBB. of New York, has of
fered an annual prize of $500 during his life for
the best landscape painting by an American art
ist under forty years of age. This reward is in
the hands of the Society of American Artists,
whose exhibition opens on the 10Th.
IT is stated by members of Plymouth Church
in Brooklyn that Mr. Beecher's fancy farm, Bos-
eobel. at Peekskill. is to be purchased by Mr.. S.
X ~ H. -
The place cost Mr. Beecher $1,000 and one of
his granddaughters. a daughter of Col II. B.
Beecher will probably occupy it. as she is soon
to marry MIR. Whites oldest son.
REV. GEORGE WILLIAMSON SMITH, upon whom
Columbia College has just conferred the degree
Of D. D., has been president Of Trinity College
for four years He was chaplain in the United
States navy during the war. For some years he
was professor at the Annapolis Naval Academy.
He has held parishes in Brooklyn and Jamaica,
L. l. He is an eloquent preacher. man of great
executive ability and strong character.
Mr.. BEEcHER owned about twenty five oils
and water-colors His strongest taste in art,
however, was for etchings and engravings. He
possessed about two thousand etchings, including
plates by the most eminent masters. His col
lection of eneravines included artists proofs of
all of Turner's earlier works; Claude Lorraines
four plates entitled Morning" Midday" 'Twi-
t'OoAo ~.
Huntingtons Lady Washington's Reception, :"
and Churchs Niagara"
SIDNEY WooLLETT, the elocutionist, has a re-
markable memory friend in England once
bet him that he could not walk from Richmond
to London, distance of twelve miles, in less
than four hours and commit to memory a poem
that he could repeat it at the end of the jour-
nev. The poem selected was Lonefellow's
king Robert of Sicily" which is composed of
nearly three hundred lines Woolett walked
the distance in three hours and twenty five min
utes. and was deadletter perfect before he
reached London.
Mrs. MICHAEL DAvITT, who is an American,
and who was married during her husbands re-
cent tour in America. received a royal welcome
on her arrival in Ireland. The Irish people pre-
seuted her with a charming villa nine miles out.
side of Dublin, called Eden Hill Cottage. In
her reply. on the occasion of the presentation,
Mrs Davitt proposed that the name be changed
to that of Land League Cottage, which was
greeted by tremendous response of AYE,
ave-" She made most effective address, con-
trasting the freedom enjoyed by her country
men, the Americans, with the tyranny that pre-
walls in Ireland.